{"id":1096,"date":"2021-08-30T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2021-08-30T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:00:49","slug":"holy-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/08\/30\/holy-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Holy Faces<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lists
\nare useful,
\nyour little
\nhelpers,<\/p>\n

but they can
\nturn on you
\nlike cornered
\ndragons,
\nbreathing fire
\nand threatening
\nto consume you,
\nor
\ndeath-faced
\nghouls
\nhovering over
\nyour pillow
\nat 4 a.m.
\nreminding you
\nthat your
\nslovenly habit of
\n\u201ctomorrow\u201d
\nnever comes
\nand will bury you.<\/p>\n

Or the lists
\nthat begin with
\nthe Coronapocalypse
\nand Hurricane Ida
\nshutting off
\nthe electricity to
\nNew Orleans
\nbecause of unpaid
\ncarbon taxes
\nand fires wilding
\nthrough
\ndeer and antelope
\nplaygrounds.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s enough to
\nbring you to
\nyour knees
\nat the edge
\nof the bridge
\nand tell
\nthat angel Clarence
\nto take his
\nWonderful Life
\nand shove it.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s
\none more list.<\/p>\n

Faces.
\nHoly Faces.<\/p>\n

Saints who
\nlive with you
\nor call you
\nDad
\nor sing
\nor dance
\nor play
\nfor you
\nor dine with you
\nor banter
\nor write for you
\nor walk with you
\nor check
\nyour groceries
\nor heal
\nyour wounds.<\/p>\n

If I move
\nthe Holy Faces
\nto the top
\nof my lists,<\/p>\n

at least
\nfor today
\nI am saved.<\/p>\n

(Photo Notre Dame des Oliviers; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Holy Faces Lists are useful, your little helpers, but they can turn on you like cornered dragons, breathing fire and threatening to consume you, or death-faced ghouls hovering over your pillow at 4 a.m. reminding you that your slovenly habit of \u201ctomorrow\u201d never comes and will bury you. Or the lists that begin with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}